The Boston Red Sox have finally put their Fenway Park problem behind them.
That was one of the loudest storylines hanging over the club early in the 2026 season, when Boston couldn’t buy a home win and spent much of the first few months sitting with the fewest victories at home in baseball. But Thursday night changed that. The Red Sox outlasted the Chicago White Sox in an extra-inning marathon to pick up their 28th home win, moving them past the New York Yankees for the fewest home losses no longer being the conversation in the American League.
Boston’s home record still isn’t pretty at 28-29, and New York sits at 27-25 at home. Even so, the shift says plenty about how dramatically this season has turned. A stretch that looked like a lost cause in late June has become the foundation for one of the biggest surges in the franchise’s recent memory.
It really started on June 25, when the Yankees came into Fenway for a four-game series and Boston was staring at a 32-46 record. The Red Sox had just dropped two of three to the Colorado Rockies, and a bad series against New York would have pushed the season closer to the edge.
Instead, former Red Sox hurler Connelly Early set the tone in the opener and helped Boston grab the first game. The Red Sox then took the next three as well, turning that series into the launch point for a run that changed everything.
After that sweep, Boston dropped two of three to the Washington Nationals, then ripped off a franchise-record-tying 15-game winning streak. That run eventually ended, but the momentum never really disappeared. The Red Sox are now on an eight-game winning streak and sit just one game behind New York for the top American League Wild Card spot.
What makes the turnaround even more striking is that Boston was still finding ways to win on the road even when Fenway was giving them trouble. Once the home results started to come around, the whole season followed. And now, after all that early misery, the Red Sox have more home wins than anyone expected them to have at this point.
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